EU-North Korea Relations-Engagement Course on Hold
EU-North Korea Relations-Engagement Course on Hold

Summary/Abstract: The EU's North Korea policies do not hit the headlines. That is mainly due to the fact that Brussels is not part of the so-called 6-Party Talks aiming at denuclearizing North Korea through a multilateral forum hosted by Beijing since 2003.In the early 2000s, Brussels started implementing a fairly ambitious economic engagement strategy towards North Korea. The 2002 North Korean nuclear crisis, however, put a halt to Brussels’ economic, financial and technical assistance programs. As will be shown, the EU's policies towards North Korea are bound to remain reactive until the complete and formal resolution of the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Currently, the EU is providing Pyongyang with humanitarian and food aid on a sporadic basis, and it remains yet to be seen whether it will prepared to fully resume its economic, financial and technical assistance programs formulated and adopted in the early 2000s any time soon.

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